I have slackware 10 installed on my old p3 machine. It was working fine. but now there are two problems:
1. the sound is unreliable. Sometimes I can play music files. ANd other times I cannot. So I do a restart and the sound is back on.
2. Whenever I do a shutdown. (either through menu pr with shutdown -h now) it reaches the stage where it says powerdown (- but it doesnt' say -- it is safe to turn off your comptuer) it used to automatically shut the computer, but now I have to press the powerbutton , which results in the computer restarting.
any solutions?
thanks

1) When it starts to be unrealiabe? It just simply happens?
2) You said, "it used to" what do you mean? did you changed your kernel? Try modprobe apm

1) When it starts to be unrealiabe? It just simply happens?
it just simply happens. one time i boot in the sound is working, next time i boot the sound is not working. This has led me to do the following. Whenever i start and login, the first thing i do is go to the control center (KDE) and check the sound settings. if the sound card seems to tbe workign then I start my other work. Other wise I restart and do the same process till i get the sound working.
2) You said, "it used to" what do you mean? did you changed your kernel? Try modprobe apm
No i haven't changed my kernel. the only thing i've done is add install instead of lilo, and add dropline gnome. It used to shutdown fine a couple of days before.

hi,

remove the " # " before " modprobe apm " in "your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules" .
that will really power-down.

and for your sound: as it's an oldy remove the card and clean the contacts.

egag

I have had similar problems with soundcards when the DMA wasn't being set properly in "rc.modules".